Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Government is mulling over making the Indian Patent Act, 1970 more simplified and research-friendly for product oriented results.
Senior adviser at the Department of Science and Technology Akhilesh Gupta said at the CII Global Science, Research and Innovation Summit that while India grants an average of 23,000 patents per annum, it lacks the culture of patents filing.
Gupta, who is also secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), said the time duration for filing of patents and the same being granted is three years in India against the global average of two years, the national media reported on May 3.
He said the central government is looking to simplify the patent laws to encourage research, development and innovation in the country.
The senior official said the Department of Science and Technology (DST) was working in collaboration with state governments to completely re-orient and transform the R&D infrastructure of 350 state universities, which are in a very poor condition.
According to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, all funding agencies of research in the country will merge into a single entity National Research Foundation (NRF) with an objective to catalyse quality research in the country. It will have twin objectives of basic research and high-quality innovation.